boustrophedon and conculture of Re: yet another romance

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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:49:50 -0600
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You forgot one important factor, Steg --

Somebody influential came up with a really unusual, unprecedented,
and creative (if "cute") idea and got other people to adopt it.
That's the only way I can think of that that would come about. :)

It's probably how the runic alphabet was created (IMHO)...


(BTW, would you believe I have a friend IRL who is also nicknamed
"Steg"?  Of course, his last name is "Stegenga"...)

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Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:58:04 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> > > > Ju:dajca is commonly written in boustrophedon style, with
> > alternating
> > > > lines of latin (left-to-right) and hebrew (right-to-left)
> > scripts.
>
> > Didn't notice this the first time.  Interesting.  They use BOTH
> > Latin
> > and Hebrew alphabets?  How would such a situation develop?
> .
>
> Fractured society with widely varying ideologies and agendas.
> Let me think of some factions....
>